A carved quartzite ‘finger citron’ snuff bottle

19th century

naturalistically carved in the form of a finger citron utilizing the darker areas to highlight the stalk and leaves, a smaller fruit issuing from the stalk, the stone of beige-yellow colour shading to caramel-brown, coral stopper

height 6.1 cm without stopper

Provenance: from a Dutch private collection acquired prior to the 1980’s